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Kathleen Parker

The character assassination of Hillary Clinton

Besides, you can’t have it every which way. Immediately after the Benghazi attacks, Clinton took full responsibility for the events and was accused by Republicans of falling on her sword to protect President Obama. Now that she’s temporarily indisposed and unable to elaborate on her admitted responsibility, those same critics insist she’s trying to avoid taking personal responsibility.

The viciousness of the pundit class is disheartening and disgusting. And these days everyone’s a pundit. Got an opinion? Why, step right up to the microphone. If you’re “good TV,” you too can be a “contributor.”

Out in the hinterlands, where Americans consume “news” that suits their political proclivities, opinions are formed on the basis of what-he-said. Reputations and lives are ruined on the tines of pitchforks glimmering in the light of torch-bearing mobs. And those are just the “news” shows.

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Besides, you can’t have it every which way. Immediately after the Benghazi attacks, Clinton took full responsibility for the events and was accused by Republicans of falling on her sword to protect President Obama. Now that she’s temporarily indisposed and unable to elaborate on her admitted responsibility, those same critics insist she’s trying to avoid taking personal responsibility.

“The viciousness of the pundit class is disheartening and disgusting.”

Gee Kathleen, that’s the same thing I thought when you spent months devoting column after column to trashing and assasinating the character of Sarah Palin. I was never the big Sarah fan some on this board were but that doesn’t mean I didn’t recognize a smear job when I saw one. What a hypocrite.

Clinton took full responsibility for the events and was accused by Republicans of falling on her sword to protect President Obama.

She took full responsibility? Really? She said she did which is good enough for politicians and journalists. But why didn’t she resign? Or who did she fire? What inter-department butt kicking did she do in order to fix the bureaucratic and political mess at the heart of the Benghazi debacle?

Right. And so questioning the course of events – in which our Secretary of State (who is doubly entitled to Secret Service protection) contracts a stomach flu and is so neglected that she becomes dehydrated and falls on her head – is character assassination, especially given her previous intransigence on Benghazi and her predisposition to using her “frailty” as a shield against criticism (crying in New Hampshire, anyone?).

So kathleen we can’t say anything negative against hill because she is a d? If a r under a r president had done what hill, as sos, did, YOU and ALL like YOU would be slamming the r 24/7 for being involved in the deaths of FOUR American’s and YOU know it!
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“…ruined on the tines of pitchforks glimmering in the light of torch-bearing mobs…”

Anybody still have doubts about Ms. Parker’s views of “Flyover Country” and its rube inhabitants?

This piece published rather surprisingly by WaPo looks at the bigger picture of Clinton’s record:

But without dragging the ancient White House travel office scandal or the Rose Law Firm into this century, she’s still the same person who repeatedly described coming under fire on a runway in Bosnia. During her ’08 campaign, she was eventually forced to apologize for saying, ”I remember landing under sniper fire,” in Tuzla back in 1996. “There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” That never happened, though the greeting ceremony did.

LOL, Kathleen. You should take care lest us ordinary folk out here in the hinterlands don’t get the idea you’re an elitist wannabe toady. Look, everyone knows you’re a Florida State educated, South Carolina housewife who proved too dull-witted to make it on a television “news” program even as lame as “Parker Spitzer” (you apparently weren’t “good TV”). Face it, your Ivy League, Columbia School of Journalism colleagues will never accept you into the fold and you do so want to be counted among the “legitimate” gatekeepers. Do you ever notice, I wonder, how often you put this particular bitterness on display.

Now that she’s temporarily indisposed and unable to elaborate on her admitted responsibility

It’s been months. The al qaeda terrorists she let kill our people are still on the loose and breaking up into cells to be sent on their next assignment against Americans and allies. Hillary’s boo-boo ain’t gonna be an excuse when these killers kill more Americans.

Clinton, who fainted as a result of dehydration after a bout of flu, hit her head and suffered a concussion,

How pathetic and shrillish of Parker. She is defending a powerful woman in her sixties as if she were the frailest of females. Not to make light of Hillary’s condition, but this controversy dates to September. For all of Hillary’s jet-setting, she’s had ample time since September to testify.

If they want to talk character assassination, I think the Democrats did a pretty good job of assassinating Hillary’s character during the 2008 primaries. Or, are they going to deny now that they called her incompetent, a liar, and a racist?

After accusing Parker, a conservative opinion columnist for the Washington Post, of falling for Obama during the 2008 election, Ziegler than claimed that she “took part in the assassination of Sarah Palin.”

“Actually, I did not take part in it. I led it. OK?” Parker shot back.

“Oops, I pressed the wrong button and accidentally blew up all of Washington, DC. Sorry. I take full responsibility for that. Mistakes were made. It was not optimal. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get on with my life.”

Unless you’re a Democrat like Hillary. Then you can go months saying nothing about a hideously botched State Department operation you’re responsible for, then have an accident, then say you haven’t commented because of the accident.

I know Parker isn’t stupid enough to be duped by all of this ham-fisted dodging, so she must just be lying.

and while the democrats / liberals did indeed gleefully savage hillary and she did not fight back and then came back for more… it would appear that that is her “bro before hos” lot in life.

if she had a character worth defending and perhaps some self esteem but her enabling the Rapist-in-Chief says everything that needs to be said about the state of her valuation of herself and other women vis a vis the democrat party.

the First Enabler,the Doormat of State… not much difference between the two save the magnitude of the outright crimes that get swept under the carpet of political expediency in service to sociopathic narcissists .

“We all know that female impotence expresses itself as pity. Ayn Rand thought it was altruism but it wasn’t. Someone looks at you with hang-dog eyes or bites his lip like Clinton, pretends to show empathy while ice water flows in his blood, the filthy pig. President Rape is who he is. Proud President Rape. Everyone turned from Juanita Broddrick. Everyone looked away. Every [a...] blinked. It’s pretty [f... ]brilliant to use force after the [f...], as he did with most of the others I know about, intimidate them, have them threatened, destroy their reputations, say they’re lying or stalkers or a little mentally unhinged, having delusions of grandeur as if being [f...] or mauled or harassed by him was something one dreamed of…. Always easier to blame the woman. Are you listening, Hillary? So much easier to be angry with them rather than with him. Have I got your attention, Hillary? … More than anyone you know how cold and premeditating the bastard is. When did your heart die? … I’d be sick to think I had become as corrupt as you. How many women have you helped him hurt by protecting him and knocking out the opposition?”
- Are You Listening, Hillary? President Rape Is Who He Is, Andrea Dworkin